Even smaller than Cerveceria de MateVeza's original space -- in an absolutely killer location at Dolores Park's NW corner -- comes another beer-and-empanadas offering from the same team, Woods Polk Station. The Marina/Polk Gulch frontier is a neighborhood lined with purveyors of pure inebriation, so it's great that a civilized (yet unpretentious) place to appreciate quality craft beer has muscled its way in.
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Bummed the three-day weekend's over and the next company-sanctioned holiday isn't until Memorial Day? Us too. Luckily, a few restaurants have stepped in to fill the void created by an endless stream of five-day weeks with new Tuesday deals that extend into the foreseeable future. Whether you're looking for cheap margaritas and tacos or PBR and crab fritters (hey, it's a very specific craving), these restaurants have got your back-to-work blues taken care of.
For non-industry types, the crew behind Guerilla Café sure had a lot of foresight. The spot was opened by three artists, Keba and Rachel Konte, alongside Andrea Ali, who gutted what was then the oldest vegetarian café in California -- Smokey Joe's, which doubled as a cannabis club before there were cannabis clubs -- to wrangle together their first venture in food. As it turned out, they knew what they were doing. The crew popularized pop-ups before pop-ups popped up, luring chefs from their own kitchen as well as Chez Panisse. Projects like Kingston 11 and The Cook and Her Farmer found their start in the café's narrow space. Down to the details -- like throwing almond milk in their mix years before it was cool -- Guerilla has been a hair ahead since the beginning.
